Drama's Quotes
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The stage but echoes back the public voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, who live to please, must please to live.
— 1747 Prologue, written for David Garrick on the occasion of the opening of his management of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? Because one did survive the wreck.
Herman Melville— Epilogue (Moby-Dick: or, the Whale (1851))
The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candlesticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense nor myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on its roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.
seán o'casey— Sunset and Evening Star (New York: Macmillan, 1954) p. 322.
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.
— Samuel Johnson, Prologue. Spoken by Mr. Garrick on Opening Drury Lane Theatre. (1747) line 53.
